"That's kind of unique, to have a father and son inducted," Tany said. "He had a lot of really great experiences, not just around Saginaw but around the world."

McDonald began speed skating in 1933 at Hoyt Park, which is where he met his wife, Bonnie, who is 91.

In 1939, McDonald won the Michigan Indoor Speed Skating state title.

"I
always wanted to win once I got on that starting line," McDonald said in 2011.
"Every game we played, I wanted to go fast. We had a game called 'I Got
It.' You have seven or eight guys and one guy hollers 'I got it!' and
we'd all chase them.

"If you were fast enough, they couldn't catch you."

He won the North American Championships at Lake Placid, N.Y., in 1939 in the half-mile, quarter-mile and one-mile races.

McDonald, who graduated from Saginaw St. Andrews High School in 1940, had an opportunity to train for the Olympics in Chicago, but he returned to Saginaw instead to finish his schooling.

Eventually, McDonald returned to skating in 1995, competing in the Masters International Open in Quebec, winning the 300-meter, 800, 1,000, 1,500, 3,000 and 5,000 races.

He won six more Masters world championships, setting four records in the 2002 Masters games in Hamar, Norway, and setting four more records at the 2006 Helsinki Masters International Speed Skating Games. He was 85.

There are no memorial services scheduled for McDonald, who was cremated.